The COVID-19 pandemic is inflicting high and rising human costs worldwide, and the necessary protection measures are severely impacting economic activity.

There is a number of scenarios for societal and business impact of the coronavirus situation. Deloitte experts offer three scenarios of what awaits us in the next 1.5–2 years under new conditions. Those scenarios can be used for short- and medium-term strategic, operational, and financial planning.

The Commission for the Human Future here calls on the nations and peoples of the Earth to come together, as a matter of urgency, to prepare a plan for humanity to survive and thrive, far into the future.

This report by the Ellen Macarthur Foundation outlines a fundamental rethink for plastic packaging and plastics in general; it offers a new systemic approach, aligned with the principles of the circular economy, and provides an action plan to raise the efficiency of the global plastics industry.